Four features that keep people glued to screens:

Feature 1: Solitude - When the relationship is just between you and the machine, it removes social cues needed for stopping.

Feature 2: Bottomlessness - There's no natural stopping point, so you never feel finished or satisfied.

Feature 3: Speed - The speed of the feedback can cause this sense that you merge with the screen. You don't know where you begin and the machine ends.

Feature 4: Teasing - They rarely — if ever — give you what you're looking for. They give just enough to keep you engaged, keep you looking at the app and interacting with it as long as possible.

When an app combines these four features — solitude, bottomlessness, speed, and teasing — it creates a kind of recipe for overuse for nearly everyone.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5776665/surprising-origin-features-superglue-kids-adults-to-screens

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The new stupid #Ai auto translation of #Xitter showed me the fact that the platform in question is home for the absolute worst type of people from every corner of the world. Lots of ignorant & horrible takes in every kind of topic flooded my timeline. My expectations from humanity was low but holy fuck.

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I've recently posted my artwork to Twitter just for experimental purposes. And it got 16 views and ZERO likes in 24 hours. Same artwork got 494 upvotes & 9.5K views on #Reddit also gained 40 followers to me.

Is there still point to keep posting Xitter? It was my only social media and one of my artwork went "viral" with 51k views and 491 likes. I've joined back in 2008 and it really WAS good back then.

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